Alicia stares at herself in the mirror, playing with her hair. The European tour is coming up soon, and she thinks she's ready for a change. As she holds her hair up, imagining it in different styles, Alex comes up behind her and takes advantage of this by nuzzling in and kissing her neck and shoulders. "Hey, Foxy."
"Hey, A-Ri." She leans back into him and stares at their reflection with a soft smile. "What would you say if I told you I wanted to do something a little drastic with my hair?" He starts to look a little fearful and she smiles slightly. "Come with me." She takes his hand and drags him out to the car.
"Where are we going?" he inquires, doubt mixing with the fear.
"You'll see," she singsongs, leaning over and kissing him at red lights to keep him calm.
When he realizes she's driving up to the boutique that she's a regular at, he pales. "Alicia, what are you going to do? You know people in the back get weird about any massive changes that aren't approved... like that episode of Total Divas where Paige wanted to get a tattoo?"
She smiles. "I actually got approval already. Don't worry, Alex. I'm going to be just fine. Come on, let's go inside." As he gets out of the car, she runs over to hug him. "Thank you for being sweet and worrying about me though."
He's uncertain still, but follows her anyway. She's walking with her head held high, so much confidence in her stance that everyone looks at her in awe as she walks by. As she sits down, he decides to trust in her, that she knows what she's doing. She glances at him as she explains to the hairdresser what she wants done, Alex biting his lip as the sides of her hair is shaved off, allowing her more freedom to style her hair in the ways she'd envisioned.
Once it's done, and her hair is teased and sprayed in the way she wants, she stands up and walks over to him, allowing him to take it in, feel what's been done with gentle touches. "What do you think?"
His hands are resting on her hips, taking in the excitement in her brown eyes. It'll take a bit for him to grow accustomed to, but she looks so happy... "It's perfect, Foxy."
Her wide grin makes it all worth it as she kisses him deeply.
-x
Ricardo sighs. He'll be doing various things for the next couple of weeks to keep busy during the holiday of Diwali, when most of his students are off with their families, and he's almost dreading it. At least when he had things to do, he had less time and energy to focus on Paige attacking Natalya and betraying her teammates not once but twice, or Alberto working with Zeb Colter to create the MexiAmerica faction.
His only comfort is that, maybe now that Paige is #1 contender for the Divas title, she will calm down a little, resume focusing on getting her title back and stop doing things to hurt those who are just trying to help her. And that, although Alberto is working with Zeb, he has no interest in being alligned with Jack Swagger.
Staring up at the night sky, Ricardo sighs as fireworks light up the surrounding area. I hope so anyway...